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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Samoto

Before leaving Estelli for good, we headed north to spend one last day in northern Nicaragua floating through Samoto Canyon. We embraced the rain and our trusty life jackets and scrambled, floated, and cliff jumped our way through the canyon.

Despite an incident on the bus involving a pocket knife and the fact that I am still sporting huge purple bruises on the back of each thigh from my cliff jump (landing in the sitting position is not recommended — ouch!), we lived to tell the tale and would recommend it!

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2011: Since returning home from the year of travel that was 2009, we spent 2010 struggling to strike a balance between establishing roots and entertaining urges to uproot. We think that a month in Nicaragua will be nothing, if not good for the soul.
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2009: A year of volunteering and seeking adventure around the world.
The idea is simple enough and just feels right.
Maybe there was something in the spring air that day, or maybe we were under the influence of having had our eyes opened to a new reality last year on our visit to Africa, or maybe we had just grown restless, but we decided to leave our jobs, sell our house, and go out and see the world. Really see the world.

Moxy

Whenever I encounter something particularly difficult, no matter how trivial, say rain on a long run day or an impossible climb on a mountain bike trail, Troy says to me, "it's just testin' your moxy nic", to which my conditioned response has become "hey (insert obstacle here), is that all you got??!". Well, we have decided to step out of our comfort zone, test our moxy and ask the world, no matter what obstacles we face along the way, Hey World, is that all you got? We will, in turn, find out what we've got.

Our Journey

2011: Four weeks in Nicaragua, May 3-31.

2009: I hesitate to use the word 'itinerary' as I know that we are going to have to go with the flow and be extremely flexible. I can already here my sister's voice reminding me, as she has a million times in the past, "Nicole, there is Plan A, and then there's what really happens!"